Before calling AI ‘the mark of the beast’
Does a talking AI, by itself, mean a prophecy has been fulfilled? Starting from an AI art experiment in Lucerne, we read Revelation 13 together.
Revelation 13:11–18 · 30-min group
Between the world and the Word
We find a question in the news
and read the Bible together.
A Garden of Eden Built by People: Musk's 'Future Without Money' and the Bible's Gardens
Elon Musk has said that once artificial intelligence and robots produce goods in abundance, money will disappear as a concept and energy will become the real currency. This study reads that forecast alongside the garden in Genesis, the gardens in Ecclesiastes and the new city in Revelation, and draws a line between the abundance people build and the abundance God gives.
Genesis 2:8–15
On your own or in a group
Three steps through a study
Check the news
What happened, and how much of it has been confirmed.
Read the passage
Read what comes before and after, and see where interpretations differ.
Share the questions
Listen to one another and find one thing to try this week.
Past studies
All studies →No One Knows That Day: AI Doomsday Fears and the History of Failed Prophecies
In a September 2026 U.S. poll, 63% of adults worried that AI beyond human control could destroy humanity, and inside the AI industry warnings and rebuttals collide. This study traces how the date-setting doomsday movements of the Millerites in 1844, the Dami Mission in 1992, and Harold Camping in 2011 began and how they ended. It then brings to today's AI anxiety the word of Matthew 24:36, that no one knows the day or the hour, and the posture of the Thessalonian letters: do not be shaken, but stay awake and sober.
Matthew 24:36
Before calling AI ‘the mark of the beast’
Does a talking AI, by itself, mean a prophecy has been fulfilled? Starting from an AI art experiment in Lucerne, we read Revelation 13 together.
Revelation 13:11–18 · 30-min group